What will you do to make peace on the 21st of September?

Jeremy Gilley is the founder and chairman of Peace One Day.

Dear Friends

In September 1999 I founded the film project Peace One Day to document my efforts to create an annual day of global ceasefire and non-violence with a fixed calendar date. In 2001, Peace One Day achieved its primary objective. United Nations General Assembly resolution (A/Res/55/282) was unanimously adopted by UN member states, formally establishing an annual day of global ceasefire and non-violence on the UN International Day of Peace, fixed in the global calendar on 21st September.

With the day in place, Peace One Day’s aim now is to institutionalise Peace Day across the world so it becomes self-sustaining. Not only has Peace Day been proved as a catalyst for broad-ranging civil society action by individuals and groups in every country of the world, but also for life-saving activities. As a key driver towards the institutionalisation of Peace Day, Peace One Day is calling for and working towards a day of ceasefire and non-violence on Peace Day 21 September 2012 – a Global Truce. We hope this will be the largest reduction in global violence in recorded history, both domestically and internationally.


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One thought on “What will you do to make peace on the 21st of September?

  1. Peace One Day is a great initiative, I will be helping make care packages for the soldiers that area fighting for freedom across the globe. As much as it pains all of us, freedom still isn’t free, and while I don’t condone the actions of the governments in these conflicts, to me it is important to support the men and women that lay down their lives for our freedom.

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